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Chicago examiner sunday sunday Chicago december 27 11a0s vol ix no 26 a m roosevelt says he cannot pardon the labor men until courts act igompers mitchell and mor rison withdraw appeal he will take up case ithholds his opinion matter still in litigation he s declares is following suit closely jashixgton deo 20 in an if official statement from the â– ^ white house to-day in regard presidential interference in the cases of president gompers vice pres ident mitchell and secretary morrison f the american federation of labor i)nder sentence for contempt of court attention is called to the fact that the cases are still before the courts and iliat no matter what the president's opinion may be as to the justice of the sentences imposed he cannot take action looking to a pardon or express any opinion as to the merits of the cases statement of the president the text of the statement follows various appeals have been made to the president to interfere by pardons in the case of mr gompers and his associates those making the appeals are unaware of the fact that the mat ter is still before the courfs it is a civil suit between private parties and there has been no way by which the government could have intervened even if it had desired to do so whether the president does or does not think he sentence of mr gompers and his associates excessive is not at present of consequence because he cannot take any â– lion or express any opinions while the f:aec i:i pending before the courts when ibe decitica is mad theo the president promptly consider whether the terms mprlsoninent arj excessive or improper but it is or course impossible for the president to act while an appeal is pend j he has nothing whatever to act f . the courts must finish with the â€¢ ase first and the defendants are at the cut moment at liberty en bail migh abandon their appeal if the defendants see tit to abandon their appeal the matter will then be i ruuglit before the executive in which case it will receive immediate and mist careful consideration but the defendants have a perfect right to prosecute their appeal and if unsuccessful in the final court then to ask for a pardon or com mutation but as long as they are prose cuting au appeal the president has noth lug to do with the matter the president has already instructed the department of justice to keep him fully i , formed as to the progress of the case so â€¢ that it the event of its becoming proper lor him to act he may have at his disposal all of the fads which will en able hiu to decide whether there was jus lilichtiou for the sentence and whether if there was justification for some punish ment the sentence is or is not altogether 100 severe but at present the president has no more to do with the case than with the case of the 29,000,000 fine imposed by judge landis on the standard oil com pany which is also on appeal and con cerning which the president has also been repeatedly asked to interfere by well-mean ing persons who did not know that he ould not interfere while the matter was still before the courts on appeal it is stated in the announcement that if the labor leaders abandon the appeal the president will at once take up the ques tion of extension of executive clemency it is believed here that an unconditional pardon would issue immediately and the accused men would not be subjected to an hou of imprisonment that the white house has an impres ou that there may be an abandonment of the appeal by gompers and bis associates is indicated by the direction to attorney general bonaparte to keep the president fully informed as to the progress of the case gompers is not here schooner lost in gale but crew is rescued ! william larmar is wrecked off callback n c olk va dec 26 meager news i wrecking of the schooner william i and the rescue of the nine men ag her crew by the austrian steam lumbia have reached here by wire in the diamond shoals lightship rmar was wrecked twenty miles currituck n c the schooner is to be still afloat and a menace to on it is presumed that the vessel i grief during the severe northeast t week the three-masted schooner s sherman wrecked by the recent md abandoned by the crew was nto hampton roads late last night rrecking steamer wreckers have their efforts to float the british ip atonmorc which stranded on ik near lynn haven inlet in the orm independence party's plank on injunctions we denounce the so-called labor pla.iks of the republican and dimocratic platforms as political buncombe and contemptible clap trap unworthy of national parties claiming to be serious and sincere the republican declaration that no injunction or temporary re straining order should be issued without notice exepet where irre parable injury would result from delay is empty verbiage for a showing of irreparable injury can always be made and is always made in ex parte affidavits the democratic declaration that injunctions should not be issued in any case in which injunctions should not issue if no industrial dispute were involved is mean ingless and worthless such insincere and meaningless declarations place a low estimate jpon the intelligence of the aver age american workingman and ex hibit either ignorance of or indif ference to the real interests of labor the independence party con demns the arbitrary use of the writ of injunction and contempt proceedings as a violation of the fundamental american right of trial by jury from the foundation of our gov ernment down to 1872 the federal judiciary act prohibited the issue of any injunction without reason able notice until after a hearing we assert that in ail actions growing out of a dispute between employers and employes concern ing terms or conditons of employ ment no injunction should issue until after a trial upon the merits that such trial should be held be fore a jury and that in no case of alleged contempt should any per son be deprived of liberty with out a trial by jury â€” from the platform adopted by the independ ence party in national convention assembled at Chicago july 28 1908 we advocate the popular elec tion of judges both state and fed eral â€” from the platform adopted oy the independence party in na tional convention assembled at Chicago july 28 1908 girl will be secretary and keep state secrets of governor hadley miss mary lee attributes success to minding her own business and keeping her mouth shut st louis mo dec 26 these are moving days at the state capltol in jeffer son city all must be in readiness for the new occupants by january 16 so the vacat ing party is busy early and late not the least radical of the changes in the offices will be that of stenographer to the governor al morrow familiarly known as colonel al has served in that capacity so long that he is regarded as a fixture at the capitol he has been ste nographer through four successive admin istrations but it is chiefly because this position is about to be bestowed upon a woman that the change suggests the inauguration of an entirely new order of things miss mary lee who has been steno grapher to the attorney general since the middle of e c crow's term of office will continue as the amanuensis of herbert s hadley when he is governor no state secret has ever escaped this de partment presumably miss lee has been appointed to succeed mr morrow because 6he has followed closely in his footsteps his wife educated her she has substi tuted in his office at various times and in almost every stenographic position at the capitol like mr morrow she is versed in law she says the whole secret of herxsuccess in making her work equal to that of a man is simply a matter of minding one's own business and keeping one's mouth shut of dropping all thought of one's busiuess when one is away from it not only for the sake of the preservation of one's own vl tality but for the safety of one's employ er's affairs that there may be uo tempta tion to discuss them man goes insane when hymns are not sung strange plight of passenger on a union pacific train laramie wyo dec 26 perfectly calm and collected when religious songs were sung to him by bis attendants and wildly insane when he did not hear such songs was ed crossman a passenger on an east-bound union pacific train cross man whose home is at superior neb sev eral weeks ago went to idaho to look for land while there he became insane on the subject of religion while hymns were sung to him he was all right but the mo ment the singing ceased he would become violent two guards were taking him to his home in nebraska when he suddenly became uousualiy violent while crossing sherman hill the guards began singing to him and he at once became calm treaty expert hits refugee decision dean wigmore disagrees with commissioner foote's opinion in rudowitz case sees political offense prominent citizens at meeting this afternoon will protest against extradition united states commissioner murk a foote last evening completed his opinion in support of bis recent decision against i christian rudowitz the russian refugee wanted by his home government for murder ' and arson in thirty closely typewritten pages the commissioner reviews at length the evi dence in the case and upholds his conduct of it by many court opinions on questions of procedure and of political offenses he belittles the evidence of the defense tend ing to show that such crimes as rudo witz was guilty of were political charac terizing them as far removed in dignity from such an offense at the same time as the commissioner's opinion there was given out another review of the case which takes the diametrically opposite view on every point it is by dean john h wigmore of the northwest ern university law school author of wigmore on evidence and a well-known authority on treaty law points of disagreement the commissioner asserts that the evi dence is clearly sufficient to satisfy a rea sonable mind that the accused probably was present at and guilty of the robbery burglary and larceny as well as the mur der and arson all as charged in the com plaint herein the reference is to the attack on the brickyard at benen in the baltic provinces when wilhelmlna kinze nd her parents the leschinskys were idled and robberies committed for taking part in which the extradition of rudowitz is sought on this same point professor wigmore says the evidence identifying him as pres ent which he denies is too slight to pro duce even probable belief as to the political character of the of fense the commissioner says the situation in the rudowitz case is as far removed in dignity from such an offense as could well be the defense he says is far short of proviug political character for the offense with that fullness and certainty deemed uecessary in a judicial proceeding 0 professor wigmore cites many quotations from the testimony showing the crime to have been of a political nature and says the evidence of the above facts is testi mony which compels belief and shows no marks at all of untrustworthiness russia regarded it political it is also material that the counsel for the defense in opening called for evidence from the prosecution as to the govern mental execution of urban stated in the testimony to have been one of the band and alleged that he was afterward caught and shot for complicity as capital pun ishment for any but political crimes is abolished in russia this is material to show that the government itself treated the killings in issue as a political crime the killing was therefore a purely polit ical act the arson was also ordered polit ically being a customary incident similar to the existing government's own punitive practice in such cases commissioner foote's opinion together with the voluminous record of the case was sent to the department of state last night and the fate of rudowitz is now in the hands of its officials and of the presi dent , league redoubles efforts the filing of the opinion was the cue for redoubled efforts on the part of the political refugee defense league to save the man from extradition a mass meet ing is to be held at the colonial theater this afternoon at which prominent citizens will speak in his behalf resolutions bear ing on the case are to be adopted and sent to the authorities at washington and a copy of professor wigmore's review is also to be presented to them great western pacific tunnel is completed ends of two-mile bore on feather river finally joined quim'y cal dec 20 workmen have broken through the remaining walls of the new western pacific tunnel connecting the north and middle forks of feather river two divisions have had charge of the work of driving the tunnel from opposite sides to the center of the mountain tae tunnel alignment is practically perfect this tunnel nearly two miles in length is the longest ou the western pacific sys tem and is said to be the second longest in the united states man held up until his fingers are frozen muskogee okla dec 26 charley lammers who operates a planing mill and who lives at callahan and m streets is opposed to being held up at the point of a gun by two masked negroes and re lieved of 5125 in cash but when in ad dition to being robbed he is forced to keep his hands in the air for ten or more minutes and have his fingers freeze while the robbers perform their work his op position turns to indignation and he is willing to go the limit in having the as sailants captured and punished mr i.am mers was on his way home and had just passed main and fon du lac streets when out of the darkness came two negroes with guns and they proceeded to cover the planing mill man they forced him to put his hands in the air and keep them there until they had searched biin thoroughly and had taken all his posses sions chappell's sons give father defi threaten action unless he finds their mother within a week elgin dentist defiant mrs meeker says she knows where the missing woman is but will not tell the sons of mrs o a chappell the missing wife of a wealthy elgin dentist yesterday gave their father one week's time in which to make known the where abouts of their mother at the expiration of the time set the sons threaten to act against the father on october 1 mrs chappell wealthy in her own right disappeared elgin knows of no reason for her to disappear volun tarily her character and position in society were such as to place her abso lutely above gossip or suspicion a year ago there was trouble between her and her husband but that was settled amicably then came a mysterious mak ing of wills and deeding over of property by the doctor and his wife that was shortly before dr and mrs chappell boarded a train for Chicago on the morn ing of october 1 the man returned alone later in the day the woman has not been heard from since sick mother kept in suspense all questions dr chappell has stead fastly refused to answer his wife's mother now in her eighty-sixth year is seriously 111 over the mystery of her daugh ter's disappearance dr chappell declines to say one word to comfort or enlighten her his sons came to him and begged him to tell where their mother was he refused and even went so far as to permit them to leave home and go to live with their aunt the mystery has grown too big for elgin to hold unless we hear from mother within a week said ora mann chappelll the elder son we will be convinced in our own minds that she is being detained some where probably in a private sanitarium against her will ve shall make every effort to find out where she is and if my father can be made to tell anything about this strange case he must do so the theory that mrs chappell is in a sanitarium finds general credence in elgin where the domestic affairs of the chappells have been n source of gossip for r year past one woman holds the secret one woman in elgin mrs e a meeker says she knows where mrs chappell is like dr chappell however she is not talking and refuses to throw any light on the mystery before she left home in october mrs chappell told some of her friends that on last new year's day dr chappell called her into his office and bluntly announced that he didn't love her any more hadn't loved her for a long time past and was going to leave her mrs chappell left home and took up her residence with her sister mrs c h pot ter in elgin the elder son ora mann chappell coming home from the university of pennsylvania in june effected a recon ciliation between his parents a few months later came the unfortunate automobile accident in which the machine that mrs chappell was driving killed mrs marietta roe mother of assistant state's attorney roe of Chicago mrs chappeh was exonerated from any biame but she was left iu a highly wrought up condition and went to eau claire wis to recuper ate - when she returned she instituted a suit for separate maintenance against her hus j band this was as suddenly withdrawn i and a few days later mrs chappell left , home with her husband from that time i no word from the missing woman has beeu , received bartlett's condition is reported alarming two denver specialists rushed to Chicago millionaire's bedside trinidad col dec 26 from a most reliable source it was learned late to-day that v h bartlett Chicago millionaire reported as having one arm broken by be ing thrown from a horse at his ranch at vcrmejo park n if was more seriously injured than reports first indicated he suffered a compound fracture of the left arm below the elbow besides having three ribs broken one finger broken and being terribly bruised about the body he wns thrown on a rock with his arm under him and barely missed striking nis head against the rock two denver specialists will re main indefinitely the only report given out over the telephone from there to-night is that bartlett is resting easy and no fear are felt for his recovery party from Chicago expected to-morrow his condi tion is said to be alarming julia sanderson not anxious to see sloan tells inquirer she hoped he would not meet her at dock new york dec 26 under her stage name of miss julia sanderson mrs tod sloan arrived home to-day on the i.ueania she left linsrland a short time before the arrival of her husband there and it was said in cable dispatches that he was great ly disappointed in not having hud an op portunity to see her miss sanderson ills played no feeling of regret that her bus band was not ou hand to meet her wlhm some one who was not aware thm he waa still abroad asked her if lie would be at the dock to meet her she promptly an swered 1 hope not she preferred not to discuss her marital affairs further j hamilton lewis to go on mission to orient will visit rulers and diplomats but not for state department los angeles cal dec 26 j ham ilton lewis to-day made the following statement the probabilities are that i will go to japan china and the philip pine islands ou a mission a hasty trip it will be it is also true that i carry with me letters and papers addressed to the ministers ambassadors and governors of the islands hawaiian and philippines the matters that take me are not of pub lic importance and at this time would not interest others than those personally con cerned i am not in any way represent ing the state depariment kills two deer in a minute winchestkit va dec i;6 while limiting doer in the mountains of hamp shire county west virginia near cnpeon liuiilg george k ornderff a wealthy lum l>cr dealer killed two deer within the space or one minute orndcrfc came upon three fine deer in ihe wikda and killed a buck and a deer cue will each barrel of his shotstiu plot against schwab ball police seek jealous rival photograph especially posed for the examiner of mrs henry c schwab in ball gown bogus notice sent to society , editors postponing dance and reception illness given as cause mrs henry c schwab de clares both functions will be held as planned social jealousies are believed to be at tire bottom of a plot to injure the success of a reception to be given by mrs henry c schwab 3347 michigan avenue in the ball room of the congress hotel to-morrow afternoon and of a ball to be given by mrs schwab at the same place on the night of january 6 yesterday afternoon while mrs schwab was dressing for the ball given by alfred and edgar born at the hotel metropole last night she was called up on the tele phone by a woman and told that for una voidable reasons the born ball had been postponed indefinitely this she found later was untrue mrs schwab sent out invitations to her reception and ball two weeks ago the society editors of the different newspapers received notices recalling the invitation fri day and printed them in good faith mrs schwab read the notices and immediately had plnkerton detectives put on the case to learn who her enemy was the police department was notified later and men from captain o bneu a office placed on the case note received by papers the wording or the note which was sent to the newspapers is as follows owing to a severe illness mrs henry c schwab xu michigan avenue has recalled the invitations for her reception december 28 and her party january 6 both of which were to have been given in tfie auditorium annex f the communication which was written on ordluary unmonogramed stationery was signed with mrs schwab's name this is the first time i have ever been made the object of an attack of that na ture said mrs schwab last night xo one is ill in the family and i am prepared to go ahead with both social functions as planned the first that i knew of the matter was when one of my friends called me up on the telephone and asked me what mem ber of the family was ill tjnter i found the notice in the society columns of the papers and then i knew that i had been made the object of some one's petty re venue the only explanation i can conjecture is that it is the work of some jealous person who failed to receive an invitation avho the person is i have not the slight est idea expects detectives report to-day i am sure however that i made no mistake in excluding from my list of guests any person of so mean a spirit that she would try that method of revenge i expect that the detectives who are on the ease will have something to report to me to-morrow over 500 invitations were sent out by mis schwab to the reception it will be held in the afternoon from 4 o'clock to 7 o'clock the women who will assist the hostess in receiving are mrs nelson moiris mrs charles schwab mrs ed ward morris mis alfred c schwab mrs morris l rothschild mrs ira n morris and mrs henry g foreman invitations for the ball of january 6 were sent to 200 persons claus spreckels sugar king dead immigrant boy who triumphed over great trust pneu monia victim san francisco cat dec 6 claus spreckels the millionaire sugar refiner died early to-day of pneumouia mr spreckels had been ill only a brief while but his constitution had been weakened by a severe strain of sicknesses during the last few years mr spreckles was seized suddenly with pneumonia last tuesday and had grown rapidly worse his attending physicians were dr c m itichter and dr herbert moffitt two sons john d and rudolph spreck els were at the bbedside at the end rudolph spreckles did not reach san francisco until a few hours before his father's death he was ou the steamship nippon mara bound to this city from honolulu when his father's critical condi tion was flashed to him by wireless he urged the officers of the vessel to make all baste offering io pay personally for all the coal consumed during the dash for the golden gate he arrived here yester day claus spreckels financier philanthropist and sugar king was born in lamsted hanover in 1828 at the age of twenty he took steerage passage for america landing in charleston with but 3 in his pocket and a knowledge that he was in a new country where hustle seemed to be the watchword young spreckels first work was as a grocer's clerk when he toiled early and late for just his board for the first month a year and a half later spreckels was able to buy out his employer and go into the grocery business for bimself his busi ness prospered from the start and was conducted successfully until 1835 when he saw an advantageous opening in new l'ork and went thither where his success was beyond all his expectations the california gold fever attacked spreckels as it had thousands of other eager young men and in 18od he landed in the golden state he embarked in the grocery business again his quick perception noting that the business could not fail to pay him big returns after his business had brought him in 50,000 he began to look about for larger business dealings his german instinct suggested a brewery and he made a put chase handling his new acquirement so skillfully that he was soon able to dispose of it at a profit of 25,000 spreckels saw opportunities for the de velopment of the sugar industry and pur chased an interest in'a small refinery the business thrived and soon spreckels was able to buy out all the other stockholders and become sole proprietor of the plant he went to europe and toiled as a com mon laborer to improve his knowledge of sugar making wnen the sugar trust was organized its promoters invited spreckels to sell out to them he refused to sell and the trust merged with the american sugar refinery of san francisco and resolved to force sprockets out of business but he was not to be caught napping instead of submitting to such diclalion si-reckels went to philadelphia with 5,000 000 cash and erected the largest sugar re finery in the world when he fixed prices himself in the trust's own domains after studying the situation for awhile the trust concluded it was up against it and capitulated then spreckels sold them his paiiadelphia property and the trust left him in control of the entire paciiic coast price five cents Taft puns to curb trusts by federal bureau would give corporation brand of department administra tive jurisdiction â€” Â» favors special board advises decreased powers for the interstate commerce commission capital hears details straus indorses scheme but it will be opposed by congress i washington dec 26 much interest was shown here to day in special dispatches from augu3ta ga purporting to outline president-elect taft's plan for a greater control of corporations the plan given has three cardinal features 1 decreasing the powers of the in terstate commerce commission cloth ing it with only quasi-judicial func tions 2 increasing the powers of the bu reau of corporations in the depart ' ment of commerce and labor by giv ing it administrative jurisdiction over all corporations doing an interstate business " 3 creating a special bureau under the department of justice to assist the bureau of corporations on all legal and technical matters this plan of better co^rol of cor porations does not include a federal license which has been recommended by the bureau of corporations and hi j dorsed by secretary straus of the de portment of commerce and labor straus favors plan judge Taft is said to favor some pro vision which will compel corporations to submit themselves to the most thorough 3 scrutiny by agents of the bureau its n good scheme said%traus judgf taft's idea is splendid and is certain to result in great good in my last report ' to congress i pointed out the need ot , some central body which would have tb right to deal with corporations and com binations there has been largely as a j result of the work of the present admit . istration a change in the attitude of the t financial leaders of the country and a recognition of the fiduciary character of their commercial powers accompanied by a willingness to co-operate with the gov ernment in correcting corporate evils there shonid be a definite system of active positive supervision and regulation 1 through an administrative office such a system has the supreme advantage that it , gets at results by co-operation rather than , opposition it is constructive not destruc r five r publicity the remedy the five years experience of the bu reau in us dealings with corporate affairs has made it clear that the greatest ad ' vance toward corporate reform must come through some general system of publicity ' the logical conclusion from the work of , the bureau thus far points to the imper e ative need of a federal constructive sys tem for the positive supervision of inter j state corporations to the primary end of . securing efficient publicity in corporation 9 affairs ' it is becoming more and more obvious 3 that the work of the government in regu - lating corporations should not be directed * at the mere existence of the corporation itself but should deal rather with the 1 way in which the combination powers are r used so as to prevent as far as possible i the misuse of the power of these great l industrial forces only such combinations ' as are flormed for wrongful purpose j should be brought under the condemnation c of the law it is useless to ignore the ' operations of economic law that has , brought about the present concentration : in business will oppose Taft scheme mr taft's plan for a sweeping reor | ganization of the whole scheme of railroad i control embodied in the hepburn law will â€¢ meet with opposition from the interstate '. commerce commission and in congress commissioner prouty is tho only member i of the interstate commerce commission ! who favors making that body a judicial ' one purely ' the question of whether a commerce court or a commission primarily admit i i trative to control the railroads was one of the most vexed problems before con , gress during consideration of the hepburn bill and the latter plan was determined on after a lengthy discussion under this bill the commission is an adminstratire one with quasi-judicial functions it has been held that the bill fcuaf tfcg sit weather forecast ! fsw Chicago nd vicinity ciear k \. al ing and cooler sunday brisk north t â€¢# itw west winds monday fair jyj jk this edition consists of i : a 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Chicago examiner sunday sunday Chicago december 27 11a0s vol ix no 26 a m roosevelt says he cannot pardon the labor men until courts act igompers mitchell and mor rison withdraw appeal he will take up case ithholds his opinion matter still in litigation he s declares is following suit closely jashixgton deo 20 in an if official statement from the â– ^ white house to-day in regard presidential interference in the cases of president gompers vice pres ident mitchell and secretary morrison f the american federation of labor i)nder sentence for contempt of court attention is called to the fact that the cases are still before the courts and iliat no matter what the president's opinion may be as to the justice of the sentences imposed he cannot take action looking to a pardon or express any opinion as to the merits of the cases statement of the president the text of the statement follows various appeals have been made to the president to interfere by pardons in the case of mr gompers and his associates those making the appeals are unaware of the fact that the mat ter is still before the courfs it is a civil suit between private parties and there has been no way by which the government could have intervened even if it had desired to do so whether the president does or does not think he sentence of mr gompers and his associates excessive is not at present of consequence because he cannot take any â– lion or express any opinions while the f:aec i:i pending before the courts when ibe decitica is mad theo the president promptly consider whether the terms mprlsoninent arj excessive or improper but it is or course impossible for the president to act while an appeal is pend j he has nothing whatever to act f . the courts must finish with the â€¢ ase first and the defendants are at the cut moment at liberty en bail migh abandon their appeal if the defendants see tit to abandon their appeal the matter will then be i ruuglit before the executive in which case it will receive immediate and mist careful consideration but the defendants have a perfect right to prosecute their appeal and if unsuccessful in the final court then to ask for a pardon or com mutation but as long as they are prose cuting au appeal the president has noth lug to do with the matter the president has already instructed the department of justice to keep him fully i , formed as to the progress of the case so â€¢ that it the event of its becoming proper lor him to act he may have at his disposal all of the fads which will en able hiu to decide whether there was jus lilichtiou for the sentence and whether if there was justification for some punish ment the sentence is or is not altogether 100 severe but at present the president has no more to do with the case than with the case of the 29,000,000 fine imposed by judge landis on the standard oil com pany which is also on appeal and con cerning which the president has also been repeatedly asked to interfere by well-mean ing persons who did not know that he ould not interfere while the matter was still before the courts on appeal it is stated in the announcement that if the labor leaders abandon the appeal the president will at once take up the ques tion of extension of executive clemency it is believed here that an unconditional pardon would issue immediately and the accused men would not be subjected to an hou of imprisonment that the white house has an impres ou that there may be an abandonment of the appeal by gompers and bis associates is indicated by the direction to attorney general bonaparte to keep the president fully informed as to the progress of the case gompers is not here schooner lost in gale but crew is rescued ! william larmar is wrecked off callback n c olk va dec 26 meager news i wrecking of the schooner william i and the rescue of the nine men ag her crew by the austrian steam lumbia have reached here by wire in the diamond shoals lightship rmar was wrecked twenty miles currituck n c the schooner is to be still afloat and a menace to on it is presumed that the vessel i grief during the severe northeast t week the three-masted schooner s sherman wrecked by the recent md abandoned by the crew was nto hampton roads late last night rrecking steamer wreckers have their efforts to float the british ip atonmorc which stranded on ik near lynn haven inlet in the orm independence party's plank on injunctions we denounce the so-called labor pla.iks of the republican and dimocratic platforms as political buncombe and contemptible clap trap unworthy of national parties claiming to be serious and sincere the republican declaration that no injunction or temporary re straining order should be issued without notice exepet where irre parable injury would result from delay is empty verbiage for a showing of irreparable injury can always be made and is always made in ex parte affidavits the democratic declaration that injunctions should not be issued in any case in which injunctions should not issue if no industrial dispute were involved is mean ingless and worthless such insincere and meaningless declarations place a low estimate jpon the intelligence of the aver age american workingman and ex hibit either ignorance of or indif ference to the real interests of labor the independence party con demns the arbitrary use of the writ of injunction and contempt proceedings as a violation of the fundamental american right of trial by jury from the foundation of our gov ernment down to 1872 the federal judiciary act prohibited the issue of any injunction without reason able notice until after a hearing we assert that in ail actions growing out of a dispute between employers and employes concern ing terms or conditons of employ ment no injunction should issue until after a trial upon the merits that such trial should be held be fore a jury and that in no case of alleged contempt should any per son be deprived of liberty with out a trial by jury â€” from the platform adopted by the independ ence party in national convention assembled at Chicago july 28 1908 we advocate the popular elec tion of judges both state and fed eral â€” from the platform adopted oy the independence party in na tional convention assembled at Chicago july 28 1908 girl will be secretary and keep state secrets of governor hadley miss mary lee attributes success to minding her own business and keeping her mouth shut st louis mo dec 26 these are moving days at the state capltol in jeffer son city all must be in readiness for the new occupants by january 16 so the vacat ing party is busy early and late not the least radical of the changes in the offices will be that of stenographer to the governor al morrow familiarly known as colonel al has served in that capacity so long that he is regarded as a fixture at the capitol he has been ste nographer through four successive admin istrations but it is chiefly because this position is about to be bestowed upon a woman that the change suggests the inauguration of an entirely new order of things miss mary lee who has been steno grapher to the attorney general since the middle of e c crow's term of office will continue as the amanuensis of herbert s hadley when he is governor no state secret has ever escaped this de partment presumably miss lee has been appointed to succeed mr morrow because 6he has followed closely in his footsteps his wife educated her she has substi tuted in his office at various times and in almost every stenographic position at the capitol like mr morrow she is versed in law she says the whole secret of herxsuccess in making her work equal to that of a man is simply a matter of minding one's own business and keeping one's mouth shut of dropping all thought of one's busiuess when one is away from it not only for the sake of the preservation of one's own vl tality but for the safety of one's employ er's affairs that there may be uo tempta tion to discuss them man goes insane when hymns are not sung strange plight of passenger on a union pacific train laramie wyo dec 26 perfectly calm and collected when religious songs were sung to him by bis attendants and wildly insane when he did not hear such songs was ed crossman a passenger on an east-bound union pacific train cross man whose home is at superior neb sev eral weeks ago went to idaho to look for land while there he became insane on the subject of religion while hymns were sung to him he was all right but the mo ment the singing ceased he would become violent two guards were taking him to his home in nebraska when he suddenly became uousualiy violent while crossing sherman hill the guards began singing to him and he at once became calm treaty expert hits refugee decision dean wigmore disagrees with commissioner foote's opinion in rudowitz case sees political offense prominent citizens at meeting this afternoon will protest against extradition united states commissioner murk a foote last evening completed his opinion in support of bis recent decision against i christian rudowitz the russian refugee wanted by his home government for murder ' and arson in thirty closely typewritten pages the commissioner reviews at length the evi dence in the case and upholds his conduct of it by many court opinions on questions of procedure and of political offenses he belittles the evidence of the defense tend ing to show that such crimes as rudo witz was guilty of were political charac terizing them as far removed in dignity from such an offense at the same time as the commissioner's opinion there was given out another review of the case which takes the diametrically opposite view on every point it is by dean john h wigmore of the northwest ern university law school author of wigmore on evidence and a well-known authority on treaty law points of disagreement the commissioner asserts that the evi dence is clearly sufficient to satisfy a rea sonable mind that the accused probably was present at and guilty of the robbery burglary and larceny as well as the mur der and arson all as charged in the com plaint herein the reference is to the attack on the brickyard at benen in the baltic provinces when wilhelmlna kinze nd her parents the leschinskys were idled and robberies committed for taking part in which the extradition of rudowitz is sought on this same point professor wigmore says the evidence identifying him as pres ent which he denies is too slight to pro duce even probable belief as to the political character of the of fense the commissioner says the situation in the rudowitz case is as far removed in dignity from such an offense as could well be the defense he says is far short of proviug political character for the offense with that fullness and certainty deemed uecessary in a judicial proceeding 0 professor wigmore cites many quotations from the testimony showing the crime to have been of a political nature and says the evidence of the above facts is testi mony which compels belief and shows no marks at all of untrustworthiness russia regarded it political it is also material that the counsel for the defense in opening called for evidence from the prosecution as to the govern mental execution of urban stated in the testimony to have been one of the band and alleged that he was afterward caught and shot for complicity as capital pun ishment for any but political crimes is abolished in russia this is material to show that the government itself treated the killings in issue as a political crime the killing was therefore a purely polit ical act the arson was also ordered polit ically being a customary incident similar to the existing government's own punitive practice in such cases commissioner foote's opinion together with the voluminous record of the case was sent to the department of state last night and the fate of rudowitz is now in the hands of its officials and of the presi dent , league redoubles efforts the filing of the opinion was the cue for redoubled efforts on the part of the political refugee defense league to save the man from extradition a mass meet ing is to be held at the colonial theater this afternoon at which prominent citizens will speak in his behalf resolutions bear ing on the case are to be adopted and sent to the authorities at washington and a copy of professor wigmore's review is also to be presented to them great western pacific tunnel is completed ends of two-mile bore on feather river finally joined quim'y cal dec 20 workmen have broken through the remaining walls of the new western pacific tunnel connecting the north and middle forks of feather river two divisions have had charge of the work of driving the tunnel from opposite sides to the center of the mountain tae tunnel alignment is practically perfect this tunnel nearly two miles in length is the longest ou the western pacific sys tem and is said to be the second longest in the united states man held up until his fingers are frozen muskogee okla dec 26 charley lammers who operates a planing mill and who lives at callahan and m streets is opposed to being held up at the point of a gun by two masked negroes and re lieved of 5125 in cash but when in ad dition to being robbed he is forced to keep his hands in the air for ten or more minutes and have his fingers freeze while the robbers perform their work his op position turns to indignation and he is willing to go the limit in having the as sailants captured and punished mr i.am mers was on his way home and had just passed main and fon du lac streets when out of the darkness came two negroes with guns and they proceeded to cover the planing mill man they forced him to put his hands in the air and keep them there until they had searched biin thoroughly and had taken all his posses sions chappell's sons give father defi threaten action unless he finds their mother within a week elgin dentist defiant mrs meeker says she knows where the missing woman is but will not tell the sons of mrs o a chappell the missing wife of a wealthy elgin dentist yesterday gave their father one week's time in which to make known the where abouts of their mother at the expiration of the time set the sons threaten to act against the father on october 1 mrs chappell wealthy in her own right disappeared elgin knows of no reason for her to disappear volun tarily her character and position in society were such as to place her abso lutely above gossip or suspicion a year ago there was trouble between her and her husband but that was settled amicably then came a mysterious mak ing of wills and deeding over of property by the doctor and his wife that was shortly before dr and mrs chappell boarded a train for Chicago on the morn ing of october 1 the man returned alone later in the day the woman has not been heard from since sick mother kept in suspense all questions dr chappell has stead fastly refused to answer his wife's mother now in her eighty-sixth year is seriously 111 over the mystery of her daugh ter's disappearance dr chappell declines to say one word to comfort or enlighten her his sons came to him and begged him to tell where their mother was he refused and even went so far as to permit them to leave home and go to live with their aunt the mystery has grown too big for elgin to hold unless we hear from mother within a week said ora mann chappelll the elder son we will be convinced in our own minds that she is being detained some where probably in a private sanitarium against her will ve shall make every effort to find out where she is and if my father can be made to tell anything about this strange case he must do so the theory that mrs chappell is in a sanitarium finds general credence in elgin where the domestic affairs of the chappells have been n source of gossip for r year past one woman holds the secret one woman in elgin mrs e a meeker says she knows where mrs chappell is like dr chappell however she is not talking and refuses to throw any light on the mystery before she left home in october mrs chappell told some of her friends that on last new year's day dr chappell called her into his office and bluntly announced that he didn't love her any more hadn't loved her for a long time past and was going to leave her mrs chappell left home and took up her residence with her sister mrs c h pot ter in elgin the elder son ora mann chappell coming home from the university of pennsylvania in june effected a recon ciliation between his parents a few months later came the unfortunate automobile accident in which the machine that mrs chappell was driving killed mrs marietta roe mother of assistant state's attorney roe of Chicago mrs chappeh was exonerated from any biame but she was left iu a highly wrought up condition and went to eau claire wis to recuper ate - when she returned she instituted a suit for separate maintenance against her hus j band this was as suddenly withdrawn i and a few days later mrs chappell left , home with her husband from that time i no word from the missing woman has beeu , received bartlett's condition is reported alarming two denver specialists rushed to Chicago millionaire's bedside trinidad col dec 26 from a most reliable source it was learned late to-day that v h bartlett Chicago millionaire reported as having one arm broken by be ing thrown from a horse at his ranch at vcrmejo park n if was more seriously injured than reports first indicated he suffered a compound fracture of the left arm below the elbow besides having three ribs broken one finger broken and being terribly bruised about the body he wns thrown on a rock with his arm under him and barely missed striking nis head against the rock two denver specialists will re main indefinitely the only report given out over the telephone from there to-night is that bartlett is resting easy and no fear are felt for his recovery party from Chicago expected to-morrow his condi tion is said to be alarming julia sanderson not anxious to see sloan tells inquirer she hoped he would not meet her at dock new york dec 26 under her stage name of miss julia sanderson mrs tod sloan arrived home to-day on the i.ueania she left linsrland a short time before the arrival of her husband there and it was said in cable dispatches that he was great ly disappointed in not having hud an op portunity to see her miss sanderson ills played no feeling of regret that her bus band was not ou hand to meet her wlhm some one who was not aware thm he waa still abroad asked her if lie would be at the dock to meet her she promptly an swered 1 hope not she preferred not to discuss her marital affairs further j hamilton lewis to go on mission to orient will visit rulers and diplomats but not for state department los angeles cal dec 26 j ham ilton lewis to-day made the following statement the probabilities are that i will go to japan china and the philip pine islands ou a mission a hasty trip it will be it is also true that i carry with me letters and papers addressed to the ministers ambassadors and governors of the islands hawaiian and philippines the matters that take me are not of pub lic importance and at this time would not interest others than those personally con cerned i am not in any way represent ing the state depariment kills two deer in a minute winchestkit va dec i;6 while limiting doer in the mountains of hamp shire county west virginia near cnpeon liuiilg george k ornderff a wealthy lum l>cr dealer killed two deer within the space or one minute orndcrfc came upon three fine deer in ihe wikda and killed a buck and a deer cue will each barrel of his shotstiu plot against schwab ball police seek jealous rival photograph especially posed for the examiner of mrs henry c schwab in ball gown bogus notice sent to society , editors postponing dance and reception illness given as cause mrs henry c schwab de clares both functions will be held as planned social jealousies are believed to be at tire bottom of a plot to injure the success of a reception to be given by mrs henry c schwab 3347 michigan avenue in the ball room of the congress hotel to-morrow afternoon and of a ball to be given by mrs schwab at the same place on the night of january 6 yesterday afternoon while mrs schwab was dressing for the ball given by alfred and edgar born at the hotel metropole last night she was called up on the tele phone by a woman and told that for una voidable reasons the born ball had been postponed indefinitely this she found later was untrue mrs schwab sent out invitations to her reception and ball two weeks ago the society editors of the different newspapers received notices recalling the invitation fri day and printed them in good faith mrs schwab read the notices and immediately had plnkerton detectives put on the case to learn who her enemy was the police department was notified later and men from captain o bneu a office placed on the case note received by papers the wording or the note which was sent to the newspapers is as follows owing to a severe illness mrs henry c schwab xu michigan avenue has recalled the invitations for her reception december 28 and her party january 6 both of which were to have been given in tfie auditorium annex f the communication which was written on ordluary unmonogramed stationery was signed with mrs schwab's name this is the first time i have ever been made the object of an attack of that na ture said mrs schwab last night xo one is ill in the family and i am prepared to go ahead with both social functions as planned the first that i knew of the matter was when one of my friends called me up on the telephone and asked me what mem ber of the family was ill tjnter i found the notice in the society columns of the papers and then i knew that i had been made the object of some one's petty re venue the only explanation i can conjecture is that it is the work of some jealous person who failed to receive an invitation avho the person is i have not the slight est idea expects detectives report to-day i am sure however that i made no mistake in excluding from my list of guests any person of so mean a spirit that she would try that method of revenge i expect that the detectives who are on the ease will have something to report to me to-morrow over 500 invitations were sent out by mis schwab to the reception it will be held in the afternoon from 4 o'clock to 7 o'clock the women who will assist the hostess in receiving are mrs nelson moiris mrs charles schwab mrs ed ward morris mis alfred c schwab mrs morris l rothschild mrs ira n morris and mrs henry g foreman invitations for the ball of january 6 were sent to 200 persons claus spreckels sugar king dead immigrant boy who triumphed over great trust pneu monia victim san francisco cat dec 6 claus spreckels the millionaire sugar refiner died early to-day of pneumouia mr spreckels had been ill only a brief while but his constitution had been weakened by a severe strain of sicknesses during the last few years mr spreckles was seized suddenly with pneumonia last tuesday and had grown rapidly worse his attending physicians were dr c m itichter and dr herbert moffitt two sons john d and rudolph spreck els were at the bbedside at the end rudolph spreckles did not reach san francisco until a few hours before his father's death he was ou the steamship nippon mara bound to this city from honolulu when his father's critical condi tion was flashed to him by wireless he urged the officers of the vessel to make all baste offering io pay personally for all the coal consumed during the dash for the golden gate he arrived here yester day claus spreckels financier philanthropist and sugar king was born in lamsted hanover in 1828 at the age of twenty he took steerage passage for america landing in charleston with but 3 in his pocket and a knowledge that he was in a new country where hustle seemed to be the watchword young spreckels first work was as a grocer's clerk when he toiled early and late for just his board for the first month a year and a half later spreckels was able to buy out his employer and go into the grocery business for bimself his busi ness prospered from the start and was conducted successfully until 1835 when he saw an advantageous opening in new l'ork and went thither where his success was beyond all his expectations the california gold fever attacked spreckels as it had thousands of other eager young men and in 18od he landed in the golden state he embarked in the grocery business again his quick perception noting that the business could not fail to pay him big returns after his business had brought him in 50,000 he began to look about for larger business dealings his german instinct suggested a brewery and he made a put chase handling his new acquirement so skillfully that he was soon able to dispose of it at a profit of 25,000 spreckels saw opportunities for the de velopment of the sugar industry and pur chased an interest in'a small refinery the business thrived and soon spreckels was able to buy out all the other stockholders and become sole proprietor of the plant he went to europe and toiled as a com mon laborer to improve his knowledge of sugar making wnen the sugar trust was organized its promoters invited spreckels to sell out to them he refused to sell and the trust merged with the american sugar refinery of san francisco and resolved to force sprockets out of business but he was not to be caught napping instead of submitting to such diclalion si-reckels went to philadelphia with 5,000 000 cash and erected the largest sugar re finery in the world when he fixed prices himself in the trust's own domains after studying the situation for awhile the trust concluded it was up against it and capitulated then spreckels sold them his paiiadelphia property and the trust left him in control of the entire paciiic coast price five cents Taft puns to curb trusts by federal bureau would give corporation brand of department administra tive jurisdiction â€” Â» favors special board advises decreased powers for the interstate commerce commission capital hears details straus indorses scheme but it will be opposed by congress i washington dec 26 much interest was shown here to day in special dispatches from augu3ta ga purporting to outline president-elect taft's plan for a greater control of corporations the plan given has three cardinal features 1 decreasing the powers of the in terstate commerce commission cloth ing it with only quasi-judicial func tions 2 increasing the powers of the bu reau of corporations in the depart ' ment of commerce and labor by giv ing it administrative jurisdiction over all corporations doing an interstate business " 3 creating a special bureau under the department of justice to assist the bureau of corporations on all legal and technical matters this plan of better co^rol of cor porations does not include a federal license which has been recommended by the bureau of corporations and hi j dorsed by secretary straus of the de portment of commerce and labor straus favors plan judge Taft is said to favor some pro vision which will compel corporations to submit themselves to the most thorough 3 scrutiny by agents of the bureau its n good scheme said%traus judgf taft's idea is splendid and is certain to result in great good in my last report ' to congress i pointed out the need ot , some central body which would have tb right to deal with corporations and com binations there has been largely as a j result of the work of the present admit . istration a change in the attitude of the t financial leaders of the country and a recognition of the fiduciary character of their commercial powers accompanied by a willingness to co-operate with the gov ernment in correcting corporate evils there shonid be a definite system of active positive supervision and regulation 1 through an administrative office such a system has the supreme advantage that it , gets at results by co-operation rather than , opposition it is constructive not destruc r five r publicity the remedy the five years experience of the bu reau in us dealings with corporate affairs has made it clear that the greatest ad ' vance toward corporate reform must come through some general system of publicity ' the logical conclusion from the work of , the bureau thus far points to the imper e ative need of a federal constructive sys tem for the positive supervision of inter j state corporations to the primary end of . securing efficient publicity in corporation 9 affairs ' it is becoming more and more obvious 3 that the work of the government in regu - lating corporations should not be directed * at the mere existence of the corporation itself but should deal rather with the 1 way in which the combination powers are r used so as to prevent as far as possible i the misuse of the power of these great l industrial forces only such combinations ' as are flormed for wrongful purpose j should be brought under the condemnation c of the law it is useless to ignore the ' operations of economic law that has , brought about the present concentration : in business will oppose Taft scheme mr taft's plan for a sweeping reor | ganization of the whole scheme of railroad i control embodied in the hepburn law will â€¢ meet with opposition from the interstate '. commerce commission and in congress commissioner prouty is tho only member i of the interstate commerce commission ! who favors making that body a judicial ' one purely ' the question of whether a commerce court or a commission primarily admit i i trative to control the railroads was one of the most vexed problems before con , gress during consideration of the hepburn bill and the latter plan was determined on after a lengthy discussion under this bill the commission is an adminstratire one with quasi-judicial functions it has been held that the bill fcuaf tfcg sit weather forecast ! fsw Chicago nd vicinity ciear k \. al ing and cooler sunday brisk north t â€¢# itw west winds monday fair jyj jk this edition consists of i : a 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